Endnotes

  1. This story was first published as “The Song of the Moor” in Macmillan’s Magazine, anthologized in Grey Weather as “The Moor-Song” and finally included in The Watcher by the Threshold with the current title. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

  2. The narrative of Mr. Graves was written in the year 1898. ↩

  3. In the light of subsequent events I have jotted down the materials to which I refer. The last authentic record of the Brownie is in the narrative of the shepherd of Clachlands, taken down towards the close of last century by the Reverend Mr. Gillespie, minister of Allerkirk, and included by him in his Songs and Legends of Glen Aller. The authorities on the strange carrying-away of children are to be found in a series of articles in a local paper, the Allerfoot Advertiser, September and October 1878, and a curious book published anonymously at Edinburgh in 1848, entitled The Weathergaw. The records of the unexplained murders in the same neighbourhood are all contained in Mr. Fordoun’s Theory of Expert Evidence, and an attack on the book in the Law Review for June 1881. The Carrickfey case has a pamphlet to itself⁠—now extremely rare⁠—a copy of which was recently obtained in a bookseller’s shop in Dumfries by a well-known antiquary, and presented to the library of the Supreme Court in Edinburgh. ↩

  4. I have identified the bust, which, when seen under other circumstances, had little power to affect me. It was a copy of the head of Justinian in the Tesci Museum at Venice, and several duplicates exist, dating apparently from the seventh century, and showing traces of Byzantine decadence in the scrollwork on the hair. It is engraved in M. Delacroix’s Byzantium, and, I think, in Windscheid’s Pandektenlehrbuch. ↩

  5. From the unpublished remains of the Reverend John Dennistoun, sometime minister of the Gospel in the parish of Caulds, and author of Satan’s Artifices Against the Elect. ↩

  6. Anglice⁠—rats. ↩

  7. This extract from the unpublished papers of the Manorwater family has seemed to the Editor worth printing for its historical interest. The famous Lady Molly Carteron became Countess of Manorwater by her second marriage. She was a wit and a friend of wits, and her nephew, the Honourable Charles Hervey-Townshend (afterwards our Ambassador at The Hague), addressed to her a series of amusing letters while making, after the fashion of his contemporaries, the Grand Tour of Europe. Three letters, written at various places in the Eastern Alps and despatched from Venice, contain the following short narrative. ↩